Sahiba Sethi

Santosh Panda

Founder and CEO, Explara

After an initial attempt to study medical and being unsuccessful,...

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Amanpreet Bajaj

Country Manager - India, Airbnb

Amanpreet Bajaj Co-founded and Headed Operations at LetsBuy.com - One of India's leading online retailer of branded IT, Communication and Consumer Electronic products. (Letsbuy.com was acquired by Flipkart.com in 2012). Letsbuy.com was the fastest growing E-Commerce Company in 2010-2011 having witnessed 10X growth in traffic and transactions, with a revenue of more than $25M, 400+ people and 4 fulfilment centres across India.
He has been a web entrepreneur since he was in college, founding a youth portal in 1999 while pursuing an undergraduate degree in Information Technology from Delhi University.

Prior to starting up Letsbuy.com - Amanpreet had over six years experience (post MBA) as a Consultant with Ernst & Young. He has worked across varied sectors in India and worked with industry leaders globally on various consulting engagements.

His Consulting experience includes assignments in risk advisory, product management, strategy and business processes spanning key geographies - America's, Europe, India, China, South Africa and North Asia Amanpreet lives in New Delhi. An avid graphic designer and gadget explorer, he loves travelling and experiencing new cultures.

Deep Bajaj

A passionate Serial Entrepreneur, Started with Events & Advertising (2006-2011). Expanded into Handmade Carpet Marketing (Award Winning Team Www.carpetcouture.com /2009) for High End Hotels & Residences, Executed Super Luxury Projects across the globe.

Co-Founder at Pramati Care - a fast growing Start-up in Home Health Care segment (Delhi-NCR). Mission is improve the way 'caregiving at home' is perceived and offered in India.. Visit www.pramaticare.com
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Passionately into Greenfield Product/Service Conception at 'First Step' where we are creating India's First Brand focusing on 'Intimate Personal Care' products & Services to make life simpler for Women who already have a lot on their plates..

His Flagship product is PeeBuddy (2014) - India's First FUD - Female Urination Device using which Women can now STAND & Pee in all Common/Dirty Toilets (even helpful during Arthritis/Pregnancy) www.peebuddy.in , the team has also launched other unique products for Women. Visit Www.firststepdigital.com. He also hosts a Tech Enabled Services Engagement platform is www.beingjuliet.com which Pampers Women during Periods.

Post Graduate from Australian National University (2005), B.Com from Delhi University, Key Attributes are Spotting a void, shaping up Start-ups & Scaling them followed by getting the best team together...
Key Strengths would include Relationship Management, Strategy & Marketing.

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Kavindra Mishra

MD and CEO, Pepe Jeans India Limited

Kavindra Mishra ( Kavi) is a post grad from IIM B and has been in apparel/retail field for the last 18 years.
He comes with a rich experience of working on the finest apparel brands in the country like Tommy / Benetton/Allen Solly and currently he is heading PEPE as the MD for India & SAARC countries and responsible for making it as one of the 'coolest' brands in the country.
Kavi was also the co-founder of zovi.com which was india's first and biggest pvtlabel in ecomm space..

he is a great believer in the principal of YOLO ( you only live once ) and hence believe that we as individuals should follow our passion to be successful in life..things like hard work / intelligence will be hygiene as world becomes more compt..passion is the 'differentiator"

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Bhavik Jhaveri

CEO & Founder - Pretr & Ambab

Bhavik is a serial technoprenure and an emerging market observer. Bhavik has successfully
founded and built some of the leading ventures in e-commerce, consumer internet and digital
media space across India and global Markets. Bhavik is committed to build start up ecosystem
in the country. As a business builder, he comes with a decade long experience of building
profitable businesses

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Kiran Maverick

Founder, The August Fest

Kiran is extremely passionate about building platforms for Entrepreneurs, Young People and Men! He is the founder of The August Fest, India's Largest Startup Conference that Celebrates Arts & Entrepreneurship. He is also Co-Founder at The Angel Summit, A Global Platform that connects incredible women from various walks of life & Showcases Women Led Startups. Kiran is also founder at Eat, Sleep, Drink Start-ups!, an organization that initiates, operates, enables events and platforms for young innovators and startups. She holds extensive knowledge about Asia and European Markets and has scaled up several startup companies over the last decade and built massive platforms.

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Monica Jasuja

‎Head of MasterPass and eCommerce, India and South Asia at MasterCard - ‎MasterCard

Monica is a passionate product manager, fascinated by how products get created and succeed/fail in a challenging market with ever changing human needs and desires. She is a she-hero, software engineer by training and she loves the 360-degree involvement in solution-ing, selling, development, deployment and customer feedback pillars of product/services management in the digital world.

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Pawan Gadia

CEO Retail and Online, Ferns and Petals

With a total working experience of 28 years, Pawan has spent 14 years in the Retail and Online Ecommerce world. He have created and expanded the franchising wing of FNP. In 2001, when he joined there were 9 shops in Delhi NCR, which since then have expanded to 200 boutiques in over 80 cities across the country. This includes company owned and franchised outlets. This journey included formulating franchising format of large, medium and Kiosk models. Pawan also founded the online division of FNP in 2002. Today www.fnp.com is India's biggest and flower and online gifting portal. He has helped establish the rules of pricing in the indian market and launched innovative ideas and worked from scratch while keeping an eye on the costs and turnover.

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Pranay Chulet

Co Founder and CEO, Quikr

Pranay Chulet is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. He has travelled a great deal from his growing up days in Dariba, to Delhi to Manhattan, US, and now to Mumbai. He has also switched sectors, moving from chemical engineering at IIT-Delhi and business management at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), to management consulting in New York, even movie-making, before he moved to digital media.

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Sanjeev Mohanty

CEO and MD, Jabong

Sanjeev is a veteran of 20 years in the apparel business with experience at Levi's India, Madura Fashion and Lifestyle and Benetton India. He made his name at Italy-based Benetton, which owns the United Colors of Benetton and Sisley brands. Mohanty, a motorcycle buff, is known to be decisive and fast-moving, someone who doesn't micromanage and gives decision-making power and responsibility to his team.

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Sita Pallacholla

Founder, The Angel summit

Startup and technology enthusiast with a passion for building sustainable communities to contribute to People, Planet & Profit.
Previously, she has founded and been an early employee in edtech and management consultant startups in India and Singapore.
Sita is usually found laughing out loud at T-Rex jokes and traveling between Asia and Europe.

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Srinivas Kollipara

Founder & COO at T-Hub

Srinivas has over 20 years of international experience in product strategy, product management and business development, but his true passion lies in building thriving communities, and helping startups to succeed.

His dream is to turn Hyderabad into one of the leading startup cities in the world, and that vision led to the creation of the T-Hub Foundation in partnership with the Government of Telangana, where he is currently the Founder & COO. T-Hub is a unique public/private partnership whose mission is to catalyse the growth of Hyderabad into one of the most vibrant startup communities in the world. The mission is anchored by a state-of-the-art 70,000 sq ft building called Catalyst, currently the largest building in India to be dedicated entirely to entrepreneurship. T-Hub is now in the process of building a stunning 300,000 sft building which will be one of the largest in the world dedicated to Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Srinivas has a strong knowledge of and connection to the startup landscape in India, including incubators, accelerators, seed funds, angel networks, VCs, and other startup ecosystem players. He is an angel investor, and Hyderabad Director for the Founder Institute, the world's largest entrepreneur training & startup launch program. He sits on the Executive Council of the IIIT-H Foundation, the Industry Advisory Board for the Centre for Management Studies, NALSAR University of Law, and serves as mentor and advisor to many other organizations and startups.

Srinivas loves getting to know what makes people tick, and encourages everyone to live their dreams!

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Sumit Jain

Co-Founder & CEO, CommonFloor.com

His result-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. As a party lover he has successfully incorporated several fun elements into the company's work culture. Prior to his present role, Sumit worked with Oracle India. Sumit holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee.

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Sumit Ranka

Co-founder, Innov8 Coworking and Thinkpot

Sumit is deeply passionate about ecommerce and has scaled Thinkpot from an early stage to Asia's largest motivational store. He has studied business and Supply Chain Management at Harvard University, and from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is also the co founder for Innov8 Co working, India's sexiest co working space

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Vikas Purohit

Entrepreneur, Ex- Director Fashion, Amazon

Vikas, who joined Paytm in December 2015, was looking after the business correspondent network for Paytm's upcoming payment banks. Before his two-year stint at Amazon India, Vikas has worked with Tommy Hilfiger, Reliance Brands and Madura Garments for more than 10 years. He is an IIM-Bangalore alumnus and former director heading fashion and lifestyle category at Amazon India.

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Vishal Gondal

Founder and CEO, GOQii

Vishal is a 38-year-old entrepreneur, after quitting as the managing director of DisneyUTV Digital in April 2013, started up again—15 years after setting up the successful Indiagames. He is known to be India's first real gaming entrepreneur, who founded India's first and largest mobile gaming company, eventually selling it to Disney for $100 million.

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Abhishek Chatterjee

Founder & CEO, Tookitaki

Abhishek Chatterjee is a B.E. in Computer Engineering from University of Pune post which he pursued MS in Computational Biology (Applied Mathematics) from University of Southern California. He lived the corporate life for 5 years with with Double Click (Google) and JP Morgan New York. He now heads Tookitaki, which is building an intelligent decision support system (DSS) to help businesses take smarter decisions. Built on an effective AI system, our DSS intends to transform the way organisations do predictive modeling.

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Aditi Chaurasia

CEO/ Co-Founder EngineerBabu (2014) and CMO, MotorBabu ( 2016 )

Aditi founded Titliyan Creation(2013) and Co-Founded Vendass Services (2009). She also started Indore Startups Community with Vinay Singhal (2014) and Unbound Her with Kavita Singh. She has a degree of B.Sc. Biotech, MBA (Finance & Marketing) Ph.D (Pursuing). Her next target is to open a society for women in her hometown by her grandmother's name because she believes that women empowerment is the base of better and advance India.

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Ankit Maheshwari

Co-founder and CEO, Betaout

Betaout is co-founded by Ankit Maheshwari (CEO) who is listed as Asia’s one of the most inspiring young entrepreneurs and social change maker by Paragon 100 Asia. Prior to Betaout, he founded Instamedia Network - a lifestyle blog network. Instamedia was serving over 20 Million page views before it was acquired by a Dubai based Media Company. He has over 10 years of experience in managing large content teams for Digital content.

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Anshu Khanna

Founder, GoodWord

A respected journalist, she was the Bureau Chief, Magna Publishing, Delhi; Consulting Features Editor, The Asian Age & India Editor, Libas International.

Following her stint in journalism, she founded the agency in 1993 with a view to offer holistic communications solutions & public relations management to discerning brands, organizations & personalities.

She treats the advisory like a communications lab that creates bespoke publicity plans for each of its clients.

A visiting faculty at NIFT, New Delhi she teaches Public Relations to Under Graduate students of Fashion Communication.

Anshu remains a writer at heart & pursues her passion as a freelance writer for magazines like Hello, Verve, The Good Times etc., besides running her own blog, Proud to be made in India.

She is also the founder of Royal Fables, a design and heritage exposition that showcases the creations of artists and designers belonging to leading royal families of India..

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Anu Acharya

CEO, Mapmygenome India

Ms. Anu Acharya is the CEO of Mapmygenome India, a Genomics company whose vision is “To touch 100 million lives”. In 2013, she introduced the concept of improved healthcare through personal genomics in India. Ever since, she has successfully pioneered the company through growing product lines, expanding affiliate network, and a Pre-Series A round of funding. Under her able leadership, the company has won several awards and honors: ET Startup Awards 2015 – Women Ahead, Nasscom Emerge 50 – League of 10, Emerging Company of the Year 2015 – Govt. of Karnataka, SMART CEO List of Top 50 Startups, VCCircle Innovative Healthcare Startup 2015, and more. From 2000 until April 2013, Ms. Anu Acharya was the CEO of Ocimum Biosolutions, a global genomics outsourcing partner for discovery, development and diagnostics, a company that began as a pure Bioinformatics company. Since co-founding the company in 2000, she has led the company through three strategic international acquisitions, two capital raises for equity investments and launch of several innovative products, solutions and services through its proprietary platform called RaaS (Research as a Service)..

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Bharat Sethi

Founder and CEO, PosterGully

Bharat Sethi is a start-up enthusiast with a lot of interest in building marketplaces, e-commerce, and retail design. He started selling art on Ebay at age 16 while still in school. He founded PosterGully in early 2012 as a side project to continue with his interest in solving the monetisation problem for artists & designers. Since then, he’s played an integral part in building a cult brand within its target audience, getting over 6 million users to the unique marketplace in 2015. He has been published in Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, TNW, Quartz, Business Insider including many other business magazines.

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Bharath Rao

Founder, PRECILY

Bharath is a keen participant in the latest Internet technologies and an explorer of these technologies to transform lives. Recently, he launched Precily ver1 app (MVP) on the Play Store. Precily aims to provide short summaries (precis) on works of non-fiction for people on-the-go. Our goal is to also provide the same content in multiple regional languages to reach a far wider audience.

He is also involved in a couple of other projects. As a Growth Hacker in 1m1b, he closely looked for business opportunities in Indian villages. He is also leading the development of an entire project in partnership with Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. As part of TEDx Delhi, he has actively worked to organize successful TEDx events from Feb 2016.

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Gauri Angrish

Founder & CEO, CORALCAREBOOK

Angrish, who graduated from the U.K.’s University of Nottingham in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology, spent a short while working as an analyst for McKinsey and Company in their pharmaceutical and medical division division. New Delhi based entrepreneur Gauri Angrish decided to set out to disrupt an already existing prescription medication industry in India. So, she went in and started by doing something unexpected: she opened a physical storefront pharmacy.

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Gayatri Gauri

Gayatri is a journalist, film critic and a film writer. She graduated from Miranda House, Delhi University and did a course in Mass Communications from Xaviers' Institute of Communications in Mumbai. In the past, she has worked with Star News, Mid-Day, Savvy and Indian Television Dot Com. Her first directorial venture was a short film which put her in the league of finalists on a reality show,”Gateway to Hollywood” on Sony Pix. She went on to make several short films on the show. Her latest offering is a life affirming series called "Say Yes to Life" with Bollywood celebs on my Youtube channel..

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Ihitashri Shandilya

Acumen India Fellow & CEO-MITHILAsmita

Ihitashri is a Social Entrepreneur and a Sustainability Champion, working towards preserving and promoting a heritage art form of India - Madhubani Paintings and creating sustained livelihood for its women artists through 'Ethical Commercialization' of art. Through her brainchild Social Enterprise 'MITHILAsmita', Ihitashri is working towards creating a Sustainability Platform for the art and its rural artists. By qualifications, Ihitashri is an Electrical Engineering graduate from NIT Kurukshetra. She has also done courses on entrepreneurship and art marketing from ISB and Sotheby's Institute of Art, London respectively..

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Jashoda Madhavji

Founder & Director, Dream N Hustle Media

Meet the smart, sassy and suave Jashoda Madhavji. All of 32 years, she has slowly and steadily climbed the ladder of success and is popularly known as the Ari Gold of the music PR business. A lifestyle PR veteran,a Hollywood publicist and a budding entrepreneur with expertise spanning across a decade, Jashoda Madhavji is a name to reckon with in the Indian lifestyle PR and entertainment media industry. You name a global or a homegrown brand, company or artist in the lifestyle and entertainment domain, chances are Jashoda has worked on the mandate to establish its credibility in India in some form or other. From movies to music, retail to hospitality, luxury to fashion, theatre to sports – in a short span of time, Jashoda, in her early thirties, has dubbed in it all. Jashoda is what we call the glamorous PR diva with a degree in literature, economics and politics and a Trinity certification in dramatics. And like a true diva, she understands what her clients seek and knows how to deliver them with élan! One of India's most powerful celebrity publicists and image consultants in India as well as a young entrepreneur who has successfully founded a boutique PR outfit in India called Dream N Hustle...

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Kamal Karnatak

Vice President of CIO's Of India

Kamal Karnatak is a seasoned CIO with an experience of 20+ years and He has held senior IT leadership positions with Indian Multinational Companies in India. Kamal is known for consistently delivering business value by cultivating, motivating, and leading high performance teams that are passionately invested in the success of the organization and the enterprise. He is known for building IT infrastructure from scratch. He has worked in Aditya Birla Group, DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd, Unitech before joining RJ corp.

He is B. Tech, MBA and he has done management courses from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He is currently pursuing his Phd from IIT Delhi. He is keen observer, theatre artist, Himalayan Tracker and learner.

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Kuntal Joisher

Vegan Mountaineer & Programmer

Kuntal Joisher combines the distinction of being an avid and a passionate mountaineer as well as a high end computer science and engineering professional. He has scaled some of the toughest and tallest mountains of the world. Alumni of Vivekanand Institute of Technology - Mumbai, and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Los Angeles, today he juggles his career as a Software Engineer at CallFire Inc, and his passion for mountain exploration, becoming the first Indian Gujarati to summit Mt. Everest, and only the second Indian civilian to climb and summit Mt. Manaslu, the 8th highest mountain in the world. Joisher has completed several challenging and exciting mountain expeditions in the Himalaya of Nepal and India, Chilean Patagonia, and the Western Ghats in Maharashtra. Joisher is also an accomplished photographer and many of his photographic conquests have received international acclaim including National Geographic, Flickr Explore, BBC Earth, Space.com, EarthSky, Himalayan Journal, and the Indian Mountaineer magazine. Apart from mountaineering and photography, Joisher is passionate about two causes - a) raising awareness about the disease of Dementia, and b) spreading the message of Veganism and Vegetarianism, and prove to everyone that Vegetarians can achieve success in all fields including mountain climbing. .

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Pankaj Judge

Founder, Chai Thela

Pankaj Judge is founder of Chai Thela( India’s fastest growing Chai Nashta Chain). Prior to this he started another food start up in Healthy food space. He spent his 4 years doing B Tech and 2 years doing MBA from IIT Kharagpur and believes in theory that – Even you have 10% of knowledge, you need 90% of common sense to apply it. He is passionate about creating jobs, helping people to grow and explore unknown territories. He loves playing guitar, running and now cooking too.

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Ramesh Chowdhary

Founder & Product Incubator, SociaInsight

Ramesh has been doing Advisory & Product Strategy Consulting for few funded start-ups for process improvements through data analytics and insights into them keeping SMAC initiatives.Last held the position of Director - Product Engineering @ Giggs IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. He has been helping incubate world class scalable products through his Product Vision with Strategic & Roadmap Planning for organizations across the globe. He has helped 10 start-ups (Digital / Social Media & Data Analytics, Cloud & Mobile Transformation) to accelerate in last 3 years.

He was the chief architect and the product engineering head for workXmate (ERP/CRM) which was chosen as top 3 innovative product at TiE Delhi – SmashUP! 2014. He was one of Speaker for top 5 innovative products at TiE Delhi – SmashUP! 2014. He started & scaled the mobil`ity practice at Halosys and has delivered 100+ mobile apps (iOS, Android, Mobile Web, Cross Platform - PhoneGap/Titanium) in last 4-5 years. He has delivered 10+ SAAS/PAAS/Multi-Tenant based solutions and has excellent knowledge on the whole eco-system with architectural and design excellence.

He has excellent Account/Program Management & Governance with revenue generation capability. He has been a CoE Leader handling core technologies like Java/JEE, Mobility, Oracle FMW, Middleware and lead a team of 200+ within the organization. He has been an excellent in defining Business Strategy focusing on growth and revenue with operation excellence and optimized cost. He was instrumental in reaching as top 2 contenders for 30 million USD for SwissRe proposal at Birlasoft which was a record in its history.

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Rohit Jain

Investor, Mentor, Executive Manager leading organizations and people to sustainable growth

Rohit is a performance-focused and visionary Mentor / Business / IT leader credited with MM-dollar savings through enterprise-level technology utilization and exceptional strategy development. A Big-picture thinker, who confidently champions business objectives with focused business acumen, vendor negotiations, on-shore and offshore development. He has had a dynamic management career with strong leadership, problem solving, planning, risk management, team-building and project management skills. Recruit, develop, motivate and retain diverse staff, structuring them into teams that deliver results and savings. Full P&L responsibility. Proven record of execution in very large complex environments. Rohit loves working with external / internal customers and partners, bringing innovative solutions to market, creating new businesses by investing in early-stage start-ups. Founded multiple companies with successful exits. He is also Advisor / Board Member for startups based in North America, Asia-Pacific and India focused on high-tech, strategy, operations. Rohit is a frequent speaker at Harvard Business School, NASSCOM and United Nations events.To enable screen reader support.

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Sahil Dhingra

Co Founder, Let's Barter India

Sahil Dhingra is the co-founder of “Lets Barter India”. Before setting up this venture he was the CEO of “Mediroof”, another start up in healthcare sector which unfortunately did not worked out due to some technical glitches. But Sahil did not leave hope and eventually when he was discarding off some of the products, then was the idea of Barter which strike him and he thought to create a Facebook community for people who believe in this ancient barter system and from there “LetsbarterIndia” was born. Before becoming his own boss and setting up these ventures, Sahil was associated with “Geoworks Reality Pvt Ltd.” for 3 years where he was contributing as “Business Development and Relationship Manager”.His future plan for this company is that he wants to take Let’s Barter to all the cities in India and International too. Sahil wants to impact everyone’s life with his idea of barter. .

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Samarjeet Singh

CEO & Founder, Iksula Services Pvt. Ltd.

Samarjeet Singh is the Founder & CEO of Iksula. A veteran in the Internet industry with over 10 years of professional experience, Samarjeet has previously worked with eBay India, leading their category management and seller marketing. Prior to eBay, he was with Bazee.com (which was
acquired by eBay) and was involved in setting-up of one of India's largest gifting portal, Tajonline. Samarjeet also has immense experience on the
technology side of e-businesses having worked with California Software Labs, where he was involved in business development and delivery of their offshore practice. Samarjeet has been recognized by the CMO Council and the World Marketing Congress as the “Best Digital Marketing Professionals” in
India and awarded “Outstanding Contribution to E-retail” by The Indian Retail & 3rd e-Retail Awards. He has completed his B. Tech. in Electronics & Instrumentation and MBA in Marketing & Finance from Goa Institute of Management.

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Sheena Roy

Artisan designer, creative entrepreneur & founder at Mogra Designs.

A former rebel in a leather jacket, Sheena got her bachelor's degree in design at NIFT, New Delhi, and worked with avant garde designer Prashant Verma before moving to New York to assist celebrity designer Asher Levine at New York Fashion Week, along with creating costumes for musicians including Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Jim Steinman and Bruno Mars among others. The shift from New York to New Delhi gave her a fresh perspective on how traditional design is undervalued in India. After leading creative teams at two of India's prominent e-commerce companies, FashionAndYou and IndianRoots, Sheena rediscovered her passion for Indian textiles and founded Mogra Designs in 2014. Her contemporary and unexpected take on age-old crafts, traditional textiles and local cultures has led to the quick worldwide success of her indie label. Sheena strongly believes in sustainable design along with responsible sourcing and constantly draws inspiration from cultural references, vintage textiles and the bohemian lifestyle she aspires to. Mogra Designs has been worn and loved by women in over 30 countries and featured in Vogue, Conde Nast Traveller, Elle, BuzzFeed, FoxLife, The Hindu and The Sunday Guardian among other publications.

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Shelly Singh

Co­Founder & COO, DMAi.

Shelly Singh, is an adept media & marketing professional with two decades of contributions in the print media at Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Reliance Retail and in the performance marketing space. She is amongst the early champions of responsible data driven marketing & advertising in India and is also founder to the DMAasia & DMAmena chapters. Her experience in international markets has been at the fore for the Association for Data Driven Marketing & Advertising to take giant strides with global DMA’s inking significant cooperation agreements that have been beneficial to the Indian businesses at large. In 2015 she had been appointed as an official International ECHOTM Envoy. As a passionate marketer, she helps incubate marketing and media intellectual properties by harnessing ideas that set new paradigms and create value for its fraternity through her company Thursday Premiere.

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Taher Khorakiwala

CEO and Co-Founder of Hullo Technologies

Professionally, Taher has donned the avatars of an engineer, salesman, entrepreneur and an angel investor. He has co-founded Hullo Technologies with the mission to catalyze the shift to the Voice Web. Having lived for 15 years in the US, he returned to India in 2009. He has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering for the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Taher is a compulsive wanderer and thinker. He struggles to be static in one place, physically and intellectually. Having been to only 52 countries, he realizes he has a long way to go..

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Vaibhav Dayal

Founder and MD, PRIM Resorts

Vaibhav is the founder of PRIM Resorts, ex-Founder of V Resorts and Cognosys Software. His jobs include VP-Europe, WNS, Group CEO - Tenon (AIM listed Manpower services company). He is also an alum of IIT-BHU, IIM-A (PGPX). He currently mentors with Mentoredge (IIM-A incubated mentorship trust), and is a Jury member of ET-Power of Ideas, TiE and others.

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Vamsi Uppalapati

Founder, Lookser.com

Vamsi Uppalapati is a dynamic and enterprising professional and based out of his experience, he realized that he could use his experience and the networks built, to bring about values in one of the most needed service in the present scenario. He holds a bachelor degree in engineering and full time MBA degree in International marketing and Brand Management from ESA- Paris, France.He worked with few fortune 500 companies in Europe.He has experience in building start-up companies in India. Currently he is the Founder of Lookser.com, A fashion recommendation platform.

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VATSAL ASHER

Founder & CEO, DMAi

Vatsal Asher is recognized in the industry as a customer experience expert having over two decades of experience in strategy to execution using creative and practical marketing solutions. He's been instrumental in strengthening DMAi’s presence globally. By emphasizing on global best practices for marketing services providers and marketers, his works carry forward DMAi’s vision of establishing industry standards. He is credited to have brought disruptive ideas to life during his early days in retail including the "Weekday Branding", an industry standard for grocery retail in India now during his stint at Spencers­RPG group & Reliance Retail. He is also credited to have conceptualized and be responsible for the marketing launch of the largest number of Telecom Stores on a single day ­ entering a World Book Record at Tata Teleservices. He is currently Director & CEO, DMAi also the founder for the DMAasia & DMAmena chapters. Building the DMA’s global presence and bringing the worldwide B2B marketing community together has been an important element of his mission

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Vinav Bhanawat

Co-Founder, PHP Poets Pvt. Ltd.

Vinav Bhanawat is one of those entrepreneurs leaves everyone spellbound. At the age of 26, he is not only a serial entrepreneur but the multiple domains he has ventured into are incredible. Smokey Ideas, a graphic designing and website development company was his first venture started at the age of 19, during his second year of engineering. Erstwhile curator of TEDxSPSU Vinav was inspired to work on his own startup NMCorp Pvt. Ltd now branded as PHP Poets IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. NMCorp has been doing outstanding graphics and branding works for clients spread out in Sweden, Australia, UK and the US. Since 2014, he has been a consultant to start-up IT companies and to Green Cap Media.Since 2013 December, he has been guiding 2 Ex-pWC and Unilever employees build their startups called Housing also providing full technology and support. A co-founder/consultant to a fashion magazine and fashion label called Territory Of Fashion, he and his team worked for Film Directors and celebrities like Randeep Hooda, Syed Ahmed Afzal and others in the Fashion and Bollywood space.Passionate about technology and Internet space, he researched on digitization & efficient resource management and brought into existence an idea of managing the non-moving inventory of all the industries on one single platform called NonMovingInventory.com, which got selected for the prestigious Silicon Valley Accelerator program BlackBox.vc and represented India at Blackbox Connect #14. His venture got featured on YourStory and was mentioned by an Irish Times journalist on Irish Times.Vinav is also a consultant with Chics Connect, an idea that aims at bringing all women together so that they can make friends wherever they go and are never alone.With the multi domain knowledge and experience gained in his startup journey so far, Vinav has got an edge of helping businesses worldwide to scale and build global products, technologies for future and start-up businesses in Silicon Valley style.

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Zarina Lam Stanford

Head of Marketing, SAP Asia Pacific & Japan.

As Head of Marketing, Zarina Stanford is responsible for the development and implementation of SAP’s marketing strategy across the Asia Pacific and Japan region. Zarina adopts a customer-centric and insight-driven approach in her go-to-market for SAP in the region, overseeing audience, industry, and portfolio marketing across all customer segments in support of the entire SAP business. She is a recognized change agent who spearheads business and transformational initiatives through imagining the possible.A seasoned industry veteran, Zarina has held various sales and marketing executive positions in North America and Asia. Prior to joining SAP, she was VP of Marketing at IBM where she oversaw strategy, marketing, and communications for Growth Markets and Asia Pacific. A champion for industry diversity and inclusion initiatives, Zarina is currently Bilateral Committee Chairperson for Asia Pacific-India Cooperation at the global women’s chamber ALL Ladies League (www.aall.in).Zarina is a graduate of the Asian Advanced Leadership Program from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. She holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University and a BA in Journalism from the University of North Texas. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Zarina and her family currently reside in Singapore.

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Abhinav Tandon

Abhinav is a thought leader, with diverse & successful global career spanning across IT, Software & solution selling of Google and Wipro in Australia ,ME and Africa. He is the CEO, Lasie Foundation, which is working on creating a Social Social Network in 7 years (7 NGOs,7 Years, convert LF into 50th NGO at the end of 7th year) to #MakeKindnessFashionable and running 5 startups ,ranging from Location Intelligence to SmartClothing to Organic & AyurYogic Lifestyle, which are brands with heart. They solve everyday problems but also contribute from each sale towards the NGOs that they have adopted. Currently assisting 11 NGOs/causes ranging from abandoned parents assistance, Women Empowerment, Animal Welfare,
Senior Citizen Reintegration, Orphanless World ,Prisoner reforms , Financially challenged children assistance etc.
Fuelling #StartUpIndia as well by assisting, mentoring, guiding and enabling entrepreneurs (especially socialpreneurs, MomPreneurs, and Womenpreneuers) to bring a tectonic shift from the vicious cycle of competitive jealousy to virtuous cycle of collaborative kindness. Abhinav actively helps in fund raising, branding, planning, ideation and scaling with the belief that Networking is not to "Use" people but to "help" people.
He has also started LFSS. LFSS is Lasie Foundation StartUp Scholarship (a.k.a ‪#‎LFSS) for The India Network is to be given to people who have all the skill ,talent and ability that it takes to become the Entrepreneurial Icon, but lack the monetary means to become the part of the network

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Akancha Srivastava

Founder, Azure

Akancha has diverse industry and product knowledge with an entrepreneurial experience of almost a decade. She has worked with some of the largest global Brands from across different industries and successfully handled market entry for many new products across categories and geographies. Akancha also has experience in devising solutions for organizations and managed their implemenations for globally placed teams along with developing a measurable index for strategy oriented success. Her Idea is to get like minded professionals catch up over events, ntroduce new talent, encourage new business ideas and hope that people also end up finding someone they like! Being an incurable entrepreneur, her current focus is on developing Azure as an umbrella Brand for many more exciting verticals!
Her specialties lie in market entry for several global Brands and launch of new businesses. She is always looking forward to take on the challenge of a new industry/ product and has a proven track record of several such Brand launches which are current market leaders.

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Annu Grover

Green Evangelist-MD at Nurturing Gree

Grown up with a strong business acumen, Annu has good communication skills clubbed with the art of making & sustaining new contacts. His key traits & assets include the ability to motivate & lead a team, understanding group dynamics & positioning every member in the most suitable way and delivering right approach to a problem & expertise in problem solving using the basics.
Inspite of having lucrative offers in India & abroad from corporate world, he decided to take a path less traveled & chose to be a 'Social Entrepreneur'. Since we, ourself are the custodian of our future somebody has to BE the CHANGE everyone wants to SEE. He has also started an NGO working for the 'environmental' & 'social' issues working full time into it. His specialties are new Business Development, PR, Sales Handling & Marketing strategies along with Retail operations.

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Chennapanaidu Darapaneni

Co-Founder and CEO, MeraEvents

Chennapanaidu Darapaneni, a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO ofMeraEvents.com, the online event listing, promotions and ticketing portal that revolutionised the event industry by effectively bridging the gap between the event organizers and attendees. Several products like MeraEvents, MoozUp, EasyTag, Digibroc, and Planica, which are operating under the umbrella of Versant Online Solutions, are also the brainchild of Naidu Darapaneni.
With over 18 years of experience in the IT industry on various capacities Chennapanaidu Darapaneni and has always emphasized on finding the right and innovation solution for all the problems and create a win-win situation for everyone he is associated with.
Naidu started his career as a Software Engineer who worked in various roles in various technologies in India and abroad before exploring his opportunities as an entrepreneur with the Versant Technologies Inc. in year 2000 in USA, which subsequently expanded its operations in India in 2004.
"A person who sees an opportunity in a problem is someone who can come up with innovative solutions and achieve success," is the secret motto that has driven Naidu to invent numerous products offering solutions to the various event based needs

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Dheeraj Sinha

Chief Strategy Officer - South Asia, Leo Burnett india

Dheeraj leads the strategic planning function for Leo Burnett in South Asia. He has worked in advertising for over 17 years across McCann Erickson, Euro RSCG, Bates, Grey and now Leo Burnett. Dheeraj is the author of a highly acclaimed book 'Consumer India – Inside the Indian Mind and Wallet', published globally by John Wiley & Sons. He has also authored a chapter in the second edition of 'Shopper Marketing' published by Kogan Page, USA and another chapter in 'The Luxury Market in India: Maharajas to Masses' published by Palgrave Macmillan. His paper 'The Changing Mindset of a Billion Minds' has reference in Frommer's Guide to India.
Dheeraj is a three times winner of the prestigious Atticus Awards. He has won several effectiveness awards, including the Jay Chiat Planning Award, the Asian Marketing Effectiveness Award and the Yahoo Big Idea Chair. He has won at EFFIES in India last five years and at APAC EFFIES last two years in a row. Dheeraj was amongst the top 40 advertising and marketing professionals in Asia Pacific in CampaignAsia's top 40 under 40 list for 2014.
His specialties are Brand provocation, Consumer engagement, Indian consumer, Youth marketing, Small town India, Cultural change, Shopper marketing, Brand extensions, New brand launch, Business opportunity mapping

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Francis Joseph

Francis Joseph, an MBA graduate, has more than 20 years of Management experience in School Education; in areas that include School Set-up & Operations, Human Resource, Technology, Organizational Development and Strategy Planning.
He has extensively worked in establishing and managing schools for one of India's Largest Singly owned/managed & non-franchised Educational group as its COO in India & Middle East (till year 2011), from where he started as a Teacher in year 1993. He was also instrumental in developing many technological initiatives and revolutionary practices in Schools, both in India and abroad. Francis is also a recipient of the "Limca Book of Record" (Edition 2013) for managing the fastest School admission process (10 days) in the country; which was also appreciated by the HRD Minister of State, Government of India and then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri. Narendra Modi.
Francis Joseph has established and operated several prestigious schools in India and Middle East; pursuing curricula of Indian and International Boards. Francis was also selected as an emerging edupreneur in India (year 2013) for an incubator programme conducted by the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (U.K.) for his efforts in affordable and low-cost education in smaller towns and villages. His core strengths are high-level networking, communication skills, people management, technology enabler, service oriented, grass-root level experience in establishing schools and developing strategy related to perception building, marketing and scalability.

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Lavanya venkatraman

Co founder, Urban Tailor

Lavanya Venkatraman, along with her co founders, brings a professional tailoring service for women, right at their doorstep.
The platform offers end to end tailoring services including free pick-up of the material that is to be stitched (they also pick up a perfectly fitting garment for measurement purposes). However, they do have a simple-to-use online design and customization tool which ensures proper measurement, styling, and fitting. Prior to this entrepreneur plunge, Lavanya worked with Myntra to handle business alliances. She pursued her bachelors from NIFT and also holds an MA in Design Management for the Fashion Industries from London College of Fashion.

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Manish Harodia

‎Co-Founder, DreamWallets

With over 10 years of experience into multiple areas viz Education, Training, Project management, and Business Consulting, Manish aims to connect with like minded individuals. His goal is to develop skill sets of the employable youth of India by providing them access to education - soft and technical based. After having created two successful ventures into education(www.genesismentors) and (www.6piconsultants.com) and making a successful exit from one of it, he is now onto his third and dream project. www.dreamwallets.com is a crowd-funding platform that we have created to truly democratize the fund-raising and getting the early adapters for the product. Manish hopes to create an ecosystem of truly remarkable stories for India in the next 18 months. He also enjoys mentoring businesses in their early stages of taking shape.

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Neeraj Gupta

Director & CEO at FormulateIP, Cofounder at Excubator, Angel Investor

Neeraj is Founder & CEO at FormulateIP (www.formulateip.com) based in India and USA. Applying his business and technical background, Neeraj assists clients in protecting and expanding their domestic and international knowledge-based businesses using IP protection, licensing and strategic planning.
Neeraj is co-founder at Excubator (www.excubator.org)which provides guidance and support needed to entrepreneurs for building a successful entrepreneurial practice.
Neeraj is co-founder of PanIIT Mentors (www.iitmentors.org) & is founding EC member of Federation of Indo-Israeli Chamber of Commerce (South). Neeraj is CEO and GCM of Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development Activity (TIDEA) at IIT Roorkee.
Neeraj is Chairman, India Alumni Chapter for for Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (www.kth.se).
Neeraj is Governing Council Member and Treasurer at IIT Alumni Centre Bengaluru, IITACB (www.iitalumniclubbangalore.org).
Neeraj is one of the experts at Swissnex India (www.swissnexindia.org ) and advises Swiss startups.
Neeraj holds Bachelors of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Metallurgical and Material Sciences and Masters of Science Degree from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden in Scientific Computing and Mathematics. Neeraj is PGPX in General Management from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Neeraj is author of book "Creating & safeguarding a strong Intellectual Property Portfolio" which was written in collaboration with SIDBI, Adelphi and KFW Bank Germany.
Neeraj is senior mentor and visiting faculty in several engineering and MBA colleges. Neeraj is mentor and visiting faculty at Institute of Intellectual Property Studies (IIPS), Global Institute of Intellectual Property (GIIP) and National Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS). Neeraj had also served as Secretary at Advanced Computing and Communication Society. Neeraj also serves on the board of advisors of several organizations.

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Pooja Sareen

Founder and Chief Content Officer, Inc42

Pooja is founder and chief content officer aka editor at Inc42, one of India's leading online technology media platforms. While working with leading publications in startups and tech space, she found that there were gaps in the quality of content. This led her to launch Inc42 to encourage talented minds by helping them reach out to a wide audience and prospective clients. Two years since launch, Inc42 is now counted among the top media sites in the startup and tech domain. Pooja pursued her graduation from Delhi University and spends large time in consulting startups on content strategy and marketing.

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Pranay Anthwal

BBH Content and Entertainment, Starlight

An experienced business leader with expertise in advising brands on how to leverage most from media, entertainment and digital businesses, investments. Pranay has over 20 years of diversified media and technology experience across marquee organizations like Starcom Mediavest Group, StarTV Interactive, Times of India and ZeeTV. He has more than 16 years of handling full P&L responsibility and is a passionate in creating bridges and harmony between specializations like Profitability. Marketing, Sales, Strategy, Human Resources, Cash Flows, Technology, Share Holder Wealth & Equity Valuation - and making them work! Pranay is passionate about IP Creation and Co Creation and have helped many brands and Content owners in monetizing their IP, bringing IP to life. He Set up the Digital & Entertainment businesses for Starcom Mediavest Group in India. Pranay also founded and ran (6 years) these two divisions for Starcom and at peak they were the two most profitable brands for the company in India. He has marketed and managed media for over 150 films. He has advised and managed media for entertainment giants like Sony Pictures, Disney, Beuna Vista, Columbia Tristar in Hollywood Studios and been keenly involved in big Bollywood like Krrish, Lageraho Munnabhai, Dhoom 2, Virrudh, amongst others. Pranay is a digital evangelist from 1998 and also was one of the 10 founding members of Internet and Online Association (IAMAI) in India in 2004.

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Prashant K Gulati

Founder and Maker-in-Chief at The Assembly

Prashant K. Gulati (PK), is a technology innovator, angel investor, mentor, idea accelerator, and commentator with interests in innovation, startups, entrepreneurship, technology, mobility, wireless, intelligent buildings, online media and more.
PK has served in numerous leadership capacities including as Trustee on the Global Board of TiE, President of TiE Dubai, Founder of The Assembly, Founder of SmartStart Fund, CEO of Optimistix Ventures, Steering Committee Member of in5 Innovation Hub, Honorary Secretary General of Indian Business & Professional Council-Dubai, Member of the Board of Dubai Enterprise Centre, Chairman of Gulfcom Group, Chairman of Prokraft Group-India and Board Member for Indian Documentary Foundation, Dubai Enterprise Centre etc.
Prashant is an active Angel and Early Stage investor in startups, younger companies and fresh ideas. With a portfolio of ventures in India, Middle East and US, he is actively involved in providing mentorship, guidance and advice to such companies at various levels. He has been associated with a large number of successful startups and has an active portfolio in the US, Middle East and India.
A Post Graduate with Honours in Computer Science and Management, PK resides in Dubai for the last two decades and is very closely connected with the latest in technology and innovation around the world, with very close association with innovation powerhouses like MIT Media Labs, Silicon Valley giants, TED, Leading Venture Firms and Technology Clusters around the world.

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Prashant K Gulati

Founder and Maker-in-Chief at The Assembly

Prashant K. Gulati (PK), is a technology innovator, angel investor, mentor, idea accelerator, and commentator with interests in innovation, startups, entrepreneurship, technology, mobility, wireless, intelligent buildings, online media and more.
PK has served in numerous leadership capacities including as Trustee on the Global Board of TiE, President of TiE Dubai, Founder of The Assembly, Founder of SmartStart Fund, CEO of Optimistix Ventures, Steering Committee Member of in5 Innovation Hub, Honorary Secretary General of Indian Business & Professional Council-Dubai, Member of the Board of Dubai Enterprise Centre, Chairman of Gulfcom Group, Chairman of Prokraft Group-India and Board Member for Indian Documentary Foundation, Dubai Enterprise Centre etc.
Prashant is an active Angel and Early Stage investor in startups, younger companies and fresh ideas. With a portfolio of ventures in India, Middle East and US, he is actively involved in providing mentorship, guidance and advice to such companies at various levels. He has been associated with a large number of successful startups and has an active portfolio in the US, Middle East and India.
A Post Graduate with Honours in Computer Science and Management, PK resides in Dubai for the last two decades and is very closely connected with the latest in technology and innovation around the world, with very close association with innovation powerhouses like MIT Media Labs, Silicon Valley giants, TED, Leading Venture Firms and Technology Clusters around the world.

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Prasoon Gupta

Co-Founder and Director at Sattviko

Recognized as the youngest "Distinguished Alumni" from IIT Roorkee and one of the youngest charter member of TiE Delhi, he has to his credit an extensive experience in entrepreneurship. Prior to venturing into food and hospitality in 2014, Prasoon founded his education venture "Techbuddy Consulting Pvt Ltd‟ in 2009 while he was still a student at IIT. During his 4 years at Techbuddy, he not only trained more than 15,000 students across the country but also earned the "Pioneer of Tomorrow‟ and "India's hottest startups‟ awards from reputed publication houses.
His second venture in food, Sattviko restaurants is one of the fastest growing vegetarian food chain of India and has won "India's Best Debutante Restaurant Chain of the Year 2014‟. After creating a strong presence in Delhi/NCR,Sattviko is now expanding outside Delhi to Jaipur,IIT Roorkee and Ahmedabad. Apart from Sattviko, Prasoon is also involved as a founding member in a soon to be launched online healthcare venture called "Sawasth‟
Prasoon is the founder of a non-profit organization called Swarajneeti, an NGO which dedicated to democratic reforms in India through technological innovations.
He is a travel enthusiast who loves making new acquaintances, particularly with entrepreneurs. As a firm believer in Karma, he has been helping a number of startups and has also invested in couple of them.

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Sahiba Sethi

Founder, Hello Meets

Sahiba is the founder for HelloMeets, which is a platform helping like-minded people meet over meaningful conversations through events. She has been entrepreneur in Residence at Uberstarter and a Freelance Author for The Asian Entrepreneur. She also had the role of a Freelance Author an IndianWeb2.com before which she has been a Business Development Executive at Square Yards. Sahiba is a highly motivated, full of energy with a will and attitude to achieve what she desires for.

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Santosh Panda

Founder and CEO, Explara

After an initial attempt to study medical and being unsuccessful, Santosh did an engineering in Industrial & Production. Always willing to do something different and think differently, he picked up a career in software engineering soon after completing Industrial engineering degree. The dot-com boom gave a flying start to the career and later on, he got opportunity to develop/lead mostly B2B products for FTSE 100 companies and startup in London, Helsinki, Los Angeles and Bangalore.
The opportunity to live globally and work for global products/companies further influenced the passion to entrepreneurship. That passion is what drives him today in building a world class 'Event Platform : ticketing-registration, event communities and event apps in one place'.
The dream to live hard, work hard but build a startup kept Santosh motivated to try this 'third attempt' to launch a startup "Explara.com". With 3 years of bootstrapping and then securing fund from renowned angel investors, Explara.com has served customers from 21 countries in 2013.

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Sidharth Rao

CEO and Co-Founder, Webchutney

Sidharth opted out of regular academia at age 19 to start Webchutney, India's leading digital agency as its cofounder and CEO, Ranked as the number one digital agency for three years in a row by Economic Times Brand Equity, Webchutney works with companies including Coca-Cola, Google, FlipKart, MasterCard, Unilever, Airtel amongst others. In 2013, Webchutney was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network, one of the largest agency networks globally. Sidharth is a distinguished member of the global digital advisory board at Unilever and has served in the jury of some of the most celebrated advertising festivals in India and around the globe.
In 2008, he incubated NetworkPlay, which in less than 3 years became the largest brand ad-network. Networkplay was acquired by the publishing division of European media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG in 2012. Sidharth is also an active angel investor in the Indian startup ecosystem.

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Suhani Mohan

Founder, Saral Designs

Suhani is the co-founder and CEO of Saral Designs, a Mumbai-based start-up providing access to
quality affordable menstrual hygiene products to low-income women in India.Taking a systems approach, Saral has developed a low-cost process for manufacturing high quality sanitary napkins at a decentralized level. While decentralization cuts down on distribution costs, Saral is using technology and local partnerships to make last mile distribution efficient and remotely monitoring these low cost manufacturing units possible.
Currently, only 12% of India's 355 million women use sanitary napkins due to lack of affordabilityand poor access to good quality products. Due to growing prosperity of the middle class, increase of women in the workforce and increasing awareness about sanitation, the sanitary pads market is expected to grow 5 times to USD 3 billion in India by 2025.
Suhani is an Acumen India Fellow and recipient of India Africa Young Visionary award from Ministry of External Affairs, India. With three years of investment banking experience at Deutsche Bank, Suhani holds a bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and is a CFA (Level I).
Suhani is has been a guest lecturer at Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Management Studies And Research. She has also been a speaker at forum's like Start-up Saturday, Jagriti Yatra, Abhyuday IIT Bombay on topics of social entrepreneurship, women in entrepreneurship and social impact. She has also volunteered for several non-profits like Teach for India, Habitat for Humanity, Project Chirag among others.

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Supriya Paul

Co-founder, Josh Talks

Supriya is a recent graduate of Venkateshwara College in Delhi University and in an attempt to make her college life productive, started her own venture - Josh Talks with her friend, Shobhit at the age of 20.
Much to their surprise, their first event took off and they decided to build this into a company with a goal to showcase stories of people who have followed their passion, and in some way or the other, contributed to changing the world.
Over the last 2 years, they have held 16 events across 9 cities in India and have covered stories of over 120 individuals like Boman Irani, Papa Cj, Ankur Warikoo, Shradha Sharma, Ritesh Agarwal and more.
Their goal is to inculcate in the youth, the drive to be successful and the ability to dream big. With this aim in mind, they are now venturing out into Tier 2 & 3 cities, where exposure like this, is much needed.

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Ankur Joshi

COO & Co- Founder, Ambab

Ankur has immense experience in evaluation of Business Ideas, Identifying Business Opportunities, Developing Business Plans, Financial Models, Business Operations and Team Structuring. At Ambab he spearheads Finance, Operations and Team Building along with Strategic Planning.
Prior to Ambab, Ankur has been part of large fund raising (in excess of 1Bn) deals for various large and medium scale companies in India.
Teamwork and Collaboration are the key qualities that drive him along with his endeavor to focus on the larger picture while addressing all small and big challenges.